Equal Employment Opportunity Commission v. Ford Motor Co.

The District Court found that appellant, Ford Motor Company [Ford], had discriminated against ten women by failing to hire them by reason of sex, in violation of Title VII of the Civil Rights Act of 1964, and ordered back pay for each from the date of the discriminatory refusal of initial employment to the date of the filing of certain findings of fact and conclusions of law on December 30, 1977, together with compounded interest. Three of the women, Gaddis, Starr, and Smith, were determined to have been refused employment in 1971 when Ford hired three men; the remaining seven were not…